Director of FP&A

This strategic individual will lead the planning and control of financial results consistent with long-term business objectives. This person will provide direction, training, and counseling to organization through actionable metrics and financial outputs. Using finance and accounting business knowledge, performs complex analyses to support and measure results and effectively manages financial planning projects and resources to ensure project success. Works with independence, interacts regularly with finance teams and business leadership to consolidate and analyze business trends, analyze monthly financial results with key financial targets measurements. Assists in the preparation of written/graphical financial and operational information to management.

• Responsible for deliverables to leadership, including strategic plan, annual profit plan, quarterly forecasts, and presentations. Including preparation, analyzes and reviews.
• Prepares /reviews presentations for meetings with operations and leadership teams comprising of actual results, forecasts, outlooks, industry views, operating results etc.
• Provides oversight and manages SG&A spending cost centers and performance for the management team. Reviews SG&A spending with leadership team.
• Analyzes and reviews actual monthly financial performance. Instinctively recognizes inconsistencies in financial data and initiates and manages the appropriate corrective action.
• General expectation around this role would be to work with functional leadership to understand financial data needed and coordination of information that is currently available around those functions.
• Supports analytical requirements for new product development support, as well as existing and new product profitability and insights
• Coordinates and consolidates Operating Review packages for the management team.
• Reviews the evaluation and justification of capital investments, joint ventures, acquisitions/divestitures, and other strategic initiatives as needed.
• Perform Commercial analytics to drive sales productivity and price realization; this will require creation and support of the current Catalyst program, which will establish full bill of materials and ultimately product costing data.
• Coordinates planning and forecasting processes, timing, and assumptions within the organization; including establishing top-down commitments based on key assumptions.
• Works with leadership to establish department budgets and quarterly forecasts for expenses, capital spending and headcount.

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Accounting or Finance with a MBA or CPA preferred.
• Excellent communications skills, including significant experience in written and oral reports and presentations to high-level management.
• Acting in a consulting role, demonstrates understanding of the financial analysis process and applies that knowledge to developing cost analyses and recommendations to the management team.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive financial experience in a multinational business.
• Strong analytical skills, research capabilities and overall business acumen required.
• Solid project management and business consultant skills.